Homeostasis of Electrogenic Metals (Na, K, Ca): Clinical Aspects |Biomedgrid

The article discusses the relevance of the search for necessary and sufficient criteria for sodium (Na), potassium (K) and calcium (Ca) homeostasis in the body in toto, as well as the irrelevance of using the results of hair spectrometry for an integral (in toto) assessment of the homeostasis of these metals. The author came to the conclusion (based on their own long-term studies) that the metal-ligand homeostasis (MLH) of electrogenic metals (EM) in the epidermis of healthy people (hair) is fundamentally different from a similar process in the whole body. If, in the first case, we are talking about local homeostatic control of metal traffic in the derivative of the epidermis, which, as is known, is not classified as an electrically excitable tissue, then the homeostasis of Na, K and Ca in the whole organism is determined mainly by the direct participation of these metals in maintaining water electrolyte balance and normal functioning of electrically excitable tissues (muscle and nervous).